Ivanhoe Mines

Ivanhoe Mines is headed by new CEO John Macken. Robert Freidland, resigned as CEO to become Chairman in May 2006. Friedland is known as "Toxic Bob" to environmental activists.

In October 2006 Rio Tinto announced that they had bought 19.9 per cent in Ivanhoe Mines "in order to jointly develop and operate Ivanhoe's Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold complex in Mongolia's South Gobi region." 

People
Accessed June 2009:


 * Robert M. Friedland - Executive Chairman
 * Peter Meredith - Deputy Chairman
 * John Macken - Chief Executive Officer (CEO), President and Director
 * Tony Giardini - Chief Financial Officer
 * Pierre Masse - Vice President, Finance
 * Douglas J. Kirwin - Executive Vice-President, Exploration
 * Richard Gosse - Vice President, Exploration
 * David Woodall - President of Ivanhoe's gold operations
 * Peter Reeve - Chief Executive Officer, Ivanhoe Australia
 * Beverly A. Bartlett - Vice President & Corporate Secretary
 * Jay Gow - Vice President, Marketing
 * Bill Trenaman - Manager Investor Relations
 * Garamjav Dondog - Senior Geologist
 * Catherine Barone - Vice President and Corporate Controller
 * Jess Harding - Vice President, Project Evaluation and Development
 * David Huberman - Lead Independent Director
 * R . Edward Flood - Director
 * Kjeld Thygesen - Director
 * Robert Hanson - Director
 * Marc Faber - Director
 * Howard Balloch - Director
 * David Korbin - Director
 * Livia Mahler - Director
 * Bret K. Clayton - Director

Related SourceWatch articles

 * Mining industry
 * Oyu Tolgoi
 * Ivanhoe Community Development Fund
 * John D. Fognani
 * Gordon Leonard Toll

External articles

 * Desiree Kissoon Jodah, "Courting Disaster in Guyana"Multinational Monitor November 1995.
 * Bert Wilkinson, "Cyanide River" Company Makes Big Promises, Albion Monitor, 8 December 1996.
 * Pratap Chatterjee, Investor Beats Mining Disaster Charges, Albion Monitor, 11 December 1996.
 * Pratap Chatterjee, "Toxic Bob's" Global Search for Gold, Albion Monitor, 18 December 1996.
 * Roger Moody, “Grave Diggers: A Report on Mining in Burma”, Mining Watch Canada, 1997.
 * Australian Broadcasting Corporation, “Robert Friedland: The King of the Canadian Juniors”, ABC Radio National, Background Briefing, broadcast Sunday 6 April 1997.
 * Mineral Policy Institute, "Toxic Bob buys Savage River" Mining Monitor, MPI Newsletter, June 1997.
 * Nathan Vardi, "The Promoter" Forbes Magazine, November 11 2003.
 * Robert Friedland, “Nothing Like it on Planet Earth - Robert Friedland's Tour d' Tolgoi” address delivered at the BMO Nesbitt Burns 2005 Global Resources Conference, Tampa, Fla., Resource Investor, 24 April 2005.
 * Forbes, “#645 Robert Friedland” 2006.
 * Friends of the Earth, “Toxic Bob” evidence why Uranium mining ban in QLD should continue, Friends of the Earth Brisbane, 24 April 2006.
 * UB Post, Mongolia, Movements Burn Effigies, Start Hunger Stike" April, 2006.
 * Resource Investor, John Macken Appointed President and CEO as Ivanhoe Mines May 16, 2006.
 * "Rio Tinto takes strategic stake in Ivanhoe Mines", Media Release, October 18, 2006.